[Article] Less Babies Is Best Climate Change Solution

Blame the farmers

Hunter gatherers have stable populations - look at the amerindians / aussies / the people who live in the artic , tens of thousands of years within the same migratory areas

until recently cities didn't generate surplus population, and you could argue that developed cities today don't either


Farmers, who love to spout the whole love the land bit are the people who historically have produced lots of kids, the eldest kept the farm and the rest went out to carve out new farms out of the wilderness or emigrated overseas or to the cities. Historically they are the ones who have created deserts and destroyed the land over a period of generations. It's no coincidence that many of the areas of early civilisation are now deserts. Egypt used her forests building the pyramids , and the whole ceders of Lebanon thing too.


ICI had a tall tank (fluidised reactor) in Liverpool IIRC where they could grow cattle feed from bacteria feed with natural gas and fertilizer. It produced the same amount of protein as soya covering an area the size of Wales. If we have enough energy food is not a major problem.

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen based energy sources and fertilizers can be made from thin air. Posphates (the major component of washing power - so not exactly rare) and other minerals may be the limiting factors.